[lbo-talk] French set new rails speed recotd

[Jason]

Nah, it's much more prosaic than that: the Brits aren't in the 
Schengen area. (Nor is Ireland because of British intransigence - if 
Ireland went into Schengen on its own the land border with the North 
of Ireland would reuqire passport control).

Trust the UK to refuse to signup to one of the few genuinely 
progressive ideas to come out of the EU: freedom of movement.

Jason.

On 2007-04-04 23:15:13 +0100 Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> 
wrote:
> It's coming: I rode Eurostar Paris-London recently and it has 
> airline-style 
> security (and delays).  I hopped on a Paris-Lyon TGV two years ago 
> with 30 
> seconds to go before (scheduled and actual) departure time and we 
> were moving 
> before I got to my seat, but you can't do that on Eurostar: arrive an 
> hour 
> before scheduled departure to make sure you get through security okay.
>